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In 2021, I posted a list of TV series that I've seen in their entirety, every episode. This is another update of that list, still missing a number of shows my memory can't retrieve, but adding some recent completions. Starting with this update, the list also includes current series that I've watched in their entirety to date, with either the promise or the hope of additional episodes coming soon. Those series are marked with an asterisk.
I like TV shows. This is an attempt to list every TV series I've ever watched in its entirety, from Season 1 Episode 1 through the blowout finale. It includes mini-series, broadcast series, cable series, and streaming series without discrimination. And it includes some series I saw piecemeal, as long as I'm sure I saw all of the episodes in whatever sequence I got to them. Some I saw on first run, others I watched after the fact. It is a woefully incomplete list--because, y'know, memory--but it's a start. I may come back here to add more series as I remember them.
Angel
Arrow
Batman
Being Erica
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Bionic Woman [2007 series]
Birds Of Prey
Black Lightning
The Bob Newhart Show
Bosom Buddies
The Bronx Is Burning
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Bunheads
The Crazy Ones
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If I forgot any series you think I must have seen from start to finish, I welcome attempts to jog my stubborn memory.
There is one series cited with a double-asterisk: The 1994 PBS comedy series The Steven Banks Show. I saw all of the broadcast episodes, but there were additional episodes completed but never aired. Haven't seen those, so...double-asterisk. (Some previous versions of this list also asterisked NBC's 2017 DC Comics sitcom Powerless, but I have now seen all of its episodes, including the three that were never broadcast. I also found the series' unaired original pilot on YouTube; the pilot was very different from the later pilot and series, and I wish the show had followed its original direction.)
This list arbitrarily excludes animated shows, only because I didn't want to rack my brain to identify which cartoon series qualified; the cartoon list would include things like The Flintstones, Batman: The Animated Series (and the subsequent related Superman and Justice League series that were part of that B:TAS universe), and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Among live-action shows, Arrested Development and Twin Peaks would have been listed on the basis of their original network TV runs, but both have since been revived, and I haven't seen any of the latter-day episodes. (On the other hand, I have seen the continuation of Veronica Mars, and I wish there were more episodes to come..)
Among current series, I'm very much looking forward to new episodes of Daredevil: Born Again, Nobody Wants This, and (especially!) Ted Lasso, as continuations of all three have already been announced. I'm hoping we'll hear that A Man On The Inside and Ripple will also be returning. The only other current show I'm watching is The Bear, and it's not listed here (yet) because I'm less than half-way through its four-season run, with Season Five looming eventually.
(I'm way late to the Ted Lasso party; I'd heard the hype and enthusiasm of the show's fans, but never had any real interest in investigating it. My wife and I wound up watching its pilot episode on a whim, loved it immediately, and obsessively watched all three seasons over the course of the next week or two. Ted Lasso now challenges The Good Place for the title of my all-time favorite series. Believe!)
I own home video copies of just a handful of complete TV series. I have The Monkees on DVD and on Blu-ray, Batman on Blu-ray (and I proposed a Batman-Monkees comic-book mashup here), Shindig! on an unauthorized set of DVD-Rs (and I really need to go back and finish watching those), homemade VHS copies of The Green Hornet, and Police Squad!, and, if we count non-physical media, the 2011-2012 series Pan Am on iTunes. I may write about Pan Am some day; the timing of its original network run coincided with some emotional turmoil in my life, and the idea of jetting off to Europe seemed mighty appealing to me. The pilot episode of Pan Am would serve as part of the climax in the first chapter of a long-gestating memoir I call Spain, a piece which, frankly, I doubt I'll ever have the will to write.
There are still a lot of older TV series that should probably be on this list. It's likely that I've seen every episode of Get Smart, The Beverly Hillbillies, F Troop, The Odd Couple, The Andy Griffith Show, Hec Ramsey, Switch, When Things Were Rotten, and a big ol' bunch of others, but my reasonable doubt is sufficient for me to omit them from this list. There are some other older shows--The Guns Of Will Sonnett, the 1960s Tarzan, Disney's Zorro--I'd like the opportunity to re-visit, but for now, I don't think I've seen all of those episodes.
Yet. But Zorro is on Disney +. I've now seen the first season, and I'm digging the second and final season. Then I'll try to track down the four subsequent one-hour specials. They're not technically part of the Zorro series, I guess...
...But I still wanna see 'em.
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